Unlike
in other states, the foreclosure crisis left Vermont relatively unscathed. But
Burlington International Airport’s effort to buy properties and relocate residents from
neighborhoods awash in noise from airplanes has created a scene that resembles
that crisis.
A
two-year study conducted by the Uncommon Alliance shows that blacks are two
times more likely to be pulled over than whites in Burlington and South
Burlington, and ten times more likely in Winooski.
A new study
by four Vermont police departments says black male drivers are almost
twice as likely as white drivers to be stopped by police in Burlington and South
Burlington.
Four years ago, a Korean War veteran from South Burlington began working to convince all cities and towns in Vermont to boost their property tax benefits for disabled
veterans. Now, he’s almost completed that mission.